performances + readings

speaking

2024

• What is Love?, NOT FUNNY at The Lyric Hyperion, Los Angeles

• The Benny Diaries, Mortified at Dynasty Typewriter, Los Angeles

2023

• What I know Is Not What I Remember at The Broad museum, Los Angeles

• Loving, Michael performance at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles

• LMNOP Shelf Talkers, original audio piece at One Archives Circa Festival, Los Angeles

2022

• I Am Iran’s Daughter, Weirdo Night at Zebulon, Los Angeles

Once, I said something embarrassing in a Mailchimp ad which aired at the top of Crimetown!

2021

• Barnard College, Athena Film Festival, on making a short film during the pandemic

2020

• PSFK Conference, Keynote on designing extraordinary digital and IRL events

2019

• Subway Book Review Book Club at the Wing: On food and culture

• Advertising Week, panel on Finding Your Own Leadership Style In A World of Dated Paradigms

• Museum of Food and Drink, In conversation with Dina Begum on immigrant food cultures in London and New York City

• Harvard University, the intersection of food and culture

• Olio Club, fireside chat, interviewed by Dana Cowin about immigration, creativity and entrepreneurship

2018

• Film Forum, Chef Flynn filmmaker panel moderator

• Museum of Food and Drink, women in food panel for GRLSQUASH

• Bitten 2018, MC

• PSFK 2018, on the future of food roundtable

• LMHQ x Wolf & Wilhelmine, How Brands Can Navigate the Shifting Landscape of Identity

2017

• Bitten 2017, MC

• LMHQ x Local Projects, Future of Food Design panel

• Bitten x Food + Future, MC

• Northside Innovation Festival, Food as a Pillar of Pop Culture keynote

• Food Book Fair, communication workshop

2016

• Bitten 2016, MC

• Bitten LA, MC

2015

• Bitten 2015, MC

2014

• Applied Brilliance Conference, On Millennials keynote